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...o a deep depression carved in the stone floor. “I presume you’ve read of the Roman caldariums. This bath is based on the design,” he said, moving a ... ... and then returned to my new home. The townhouse was furnished in a rather baroque manner, all white and gold paint and rococo design. The bed was...

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...by!), while others ignored him or they haven’t yet heard about him. Without being disturbed by any of the two contradictory tendencies, the Oltenian- Romanian settled in New Mexico creates further on important works in the two large fieldsliteratures and mathematics (but also in other art and scientific fields)....

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...out being disturbed by any of the two contradictory tendencies, the Oltenian- Romanian settled in New Mexico creates further on important works in th... ...had the revelation of renewal and, moreover, a kind of a prolonged shock: the Romanian- American “neovanguard” is the creator of a new practical and ... ... movement. But same reactions have had before me a series of some foreign and Romanian writers as J.Levenard, A.Skemer, Teresinka Pereira, Khalid Rai... ...s, the “mould flowers” of spoken language etc. A genuine Fernando Pessoa of Romanians, the founder of paradoxism represents, in fact, through his ... ...ankness that reduced, partly at least, the injustices perpetrated against the Romanians in the previous decades by his fellows countryman and by for... ...al nature, and whose further development, unforeseeable and bushy, sends to a baroque postmodernism ( or a postmodernist baroque), very original and... ... (also) from this point of view stateliness in amplitude, because its system, baroque-postmodernist in essence, allows successive ads, as a tree tha... ...he century. He recognizes his “multistylistic style” that includes different “baroque, surrealistic, impressionistic, expressionistic...and other......

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... 40 —“Ya, like He accepted pornography for the ancient Greeks and Romans, but He changed his mind for modern day America.” And the nearly u... ...not necessarily more popular than other types of stories such as comedies, romances or adventure stories.” 53 —“I believe that it is so m... ...erved, as the citizens of the empire abdicated their civic duties and the Roman empire was decaying from their neglect, they lived only for bread and... ...ll‟s hedonistic calculus. For example, Mozart is a real positive. We play Baroque music while we learn. We know that some classical music is very po...

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...When he had the ineluctable sympathy for another person, it deflated all the romance. He didn't mind that so much. To embark on a deep friendship wi... ...se; but all partners of the past seemed to him to have wanted only to cast a romantic aura around him as if scared to see the real person inside, and ... ...its own cell divisions. Secondly, this cynicism that a woman, spellbound in romance, robbed a man of his sperm to produce a baby by which to devote h... ...red their heads. Their long boots were entrenched in mud. According to his romantic perceptions of them, each one was august, unpretentious, and mel... ...y that existed was her own self and the natural forces that beamed onto her. Romanticizing the sun that burnt her face and could end up giving her ski... ...was doing this for him. These reminders helped her to construct a florid and baroque facade of smiles and chatter. Her chatter was a repetition of th...

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...ng man, though the portraits of him in later life may not satisfy the more romantic expec- tations of his admirers. He must have had at all times eyes... ...e title of Jane la Pale (it was originally called, with a still more Early Roman- tic avidity for baroque titles, Wann-Chlore) has caused it, I believ... ... (it was originally called, with a still more Early Roman- tic avidity for baroque titles, Wann-Chlore) has caused it, I believe, to be more commonly ... ...costly journey to Sardinia to carry out a plan of resmelting the slag from Roman and other mines there. Thus in his very latest days, when he was livi... ... great one. It occupies a kind of middle position between the melodramatic romance of his nonage and the strictly analytic romance-novel of his later ... ...uld not necessar- ily matter. T o the artist in analysis as opposed to the romance- writer, folly always, and villainy sometimes, does supply a much b...

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... a very big, important shrine by the roadside. It is a chapel built in the baroque manner, florid pink and cream outside, with opulent small arches. A... ...ter hatred. It is a great shock to find this figure sitting in a handsome, baroque, pink-washed shrine in one of those Alpine valleys which to our thi... ...e in one of those Alpine valleys which to our thinking are all flowers and romance, like the picture in the T ate Gallery. ‘Spring in the Austrian T y... ...o, La Fiaccola sotto il Moggio—The Light under the Bushel. It is a foolish romantic play of no real significance. There are several murders and a good... ...urders and a good deal of artificial horror. But it is all a very nice and romantic piece of make-believe, like a charade. So the audience loved it. A... ...a and Martin Luther the living Church actually transformed itself, for the Roman Church was still pagan. Henry VIII simply said: ‘There is no Church, ... ... sight between wooded banks and under bridges where quaint villages of old romance piled their red and coloured pointed roofs beside the water, very s...

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...er the promptings of transient excitement, a love-adventure in an age when romances are written precisely because they never happen; to have dreamed o... ...l lover, to whom she abandons herself with the rapture of the woman in the Roman mosaic who embraces a chimera; yet a third is thinking that this very... ...the composer had had no other object 44 Gambara in view than to produce a baroque effect without troubling himself about musical truth or unity, or a... ...eroic life of the period is there: the mind enters into it; I read in it a romance, a poem of chivalry. The expo- sition is now finished; the resource...

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...Excerpt: PART I. It rose for them--their honey-moon--over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own. ?It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment,? Susy Lansing o...

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...R THEM—their honey-moon—over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to ... ...married couple. It was such fun to pop down and see them: it made one feel romantic and jolly. All they need do was to accept the houses in turn: go o... ...irm. “He’s read me his first chapter: it’s won- derful. It’s a philosophic romance—rather like Marius, you know.” “Oh, yes—I do!” said Strefford, with... ...e something remarkable. The mere fact that he was engaged on a philosophic romance, and not a mere novel, seemed the proof of an intrinsic superiority... ...“Oh, if only Streffy had chosen—!” Strefford’s approval of the philosophic romance convinced her that it had been worth while staying in V enice for N... ...poil- ing the brat like that! Y ou’d no business to, my dear chap-a lovely baroque pearl—” he protested, with the half-apolo- getic tone of the rich m...

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...otaphia, Urn Burial, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, was published in 1658. Its nominal subject was the discovery of a Roman urn burial in Norfolk. The discovery of these remains prompts Browne to deliver, first, a careful description of the antiquities found, and then a careful survey of most of the burial and funerary customs, ancient and c...

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...much a first essay in political philosophy as Die Feen is a first essay in romantic opera. The attempt to recover its spirit twenty years later, when ... ...at the poor dwarf is repulsive to their sense of physical beauty and their romantic conception of heroism, that he is ugly and awkward, greedy and rid... ...ve been so poor and faithless as to trade for their power on the lies of a romancer. Back to Opera Again AND NOW, O Nibelungen Spectator, pluck up; fo... ...or all the principals in a row, vengeful conjura- tions for trios of them, romantic death song for the tenor: in short, all manner of operatic convent... ...In the didactic part the philosophy degenerates into the prescription of a romantic nostrum for all human ills. Wagner, only mortal after all, succumb... ...tation. On its decorative side, it was the same phenomenon in music as the Baroque school in architecture: an energetic struggle to enliven organic de...

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...ing. She had one working gait, which she could hold till further notice; a Roman nose; a large, promi- nent eye; a shaving-brush of a tail; and an irr... ...The voice went up and down as he spoke. “Going strong when I left her. The Roman Catholic Mis- sions are adopting the unclaimed babies to turn them in... ...et enormously, for it was com- posed in the Bouverie-Byzantine style, with baroque and ro- coco embellishments; and afterwards he introduced me to Mrs...